Nathan Turner, BIS Alumni Class of 2020, talks about his first year after graduation in the midst of the pandemic and shares a few tips for the new graduates. 1. Describe your first year after graduating during the pandemic? After graduating you realize you are […]

Former BIS student Avalon Carpenter certainly lives up to his name. Now in his twenties, he started  asking himself the big questions: what does he want to be and his purpose in life, how could he create a positive influence upon others.. those sorts of existential, […]

During a trip to Bali you will likely cross paths with at least one cultural ceremony. It could be a modest Odalan (temple anniversary), or a more festive village ceremony such as an Ngaben (cremation ceremony), or even a larger one where all the streets […]

In this edition, we are doing something a little different.  This month, we will dedicate this section not only student alumni but to past faculty alumni as well.  Let us travel back in time and go down memory lane with BIS’s longest-serving Head of School […]

It was June 23rd, 2019. A sunny, breezy day in Bali when history was made with an official announcement banning single-use plastic. The news was long-awaited as the island had been grappling with serious plastic pollution both on land and its waterways. The hard work […]

Please introduce yourself. Hi, I’m Rinaldhy Oosterman, or just “Aldi”—like the German supermarket, except I’m Dutch-Indo. I graduated from BIS in 2009, which seems like an eternity now that I’m thinking about it, and I’ve been living in Melbourne ever since! What made you interested […]

International schools and the international community can be perceived as exclusive bubbles, sometimes quite distant from the host country (especially in terms of culture). It’s a natural thing for expatriates to long for their home where everything is more familiar. While we do sometimes wish […]